Jameson Lopp on Nostr: Security updates are happening at such an accelerated pace that sometimes you're ...
Security updates are happening at such an accelerated pace that sometimes you're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Had a machine with known Linux kernel vulnerabilities so I updated it, but then the database on that service refused to run because the latest available kernel still had vulnerabilities and canonical had not yet released the most recent kernel version 😞
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